In our previous video, we explored the claimed edibility of quackgrass, and then made some rhizome herbal tea. But this time around, thanks to your questions and suggestions in the comments, we’d like to make a couple quick clarifications and then roast our left over rhizomes to see if it improves the flavour!
Previous video (Can you eat grass?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y7QD6cbAwc
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I like making an herbal tea from white pine – using the needles. Sometimes plain, or with dandelion. I also like adding in some zest from the inside of an orange and ginger. Yum!
DERRICK! IMPORTANT WARNING! asmrl has pointed out that yew trees are toxic! They look like other evergreens, but have red berries in season. I've never seen a yew tree, myself, so it never occurred to me to look it up, but apparently 50g of yew needles is enough to kill a person!
Please forgive me for posting something so incautious before about drinking evergreen leaves tea.
I am seriously shaken, and so afraid in case you may have gone right out and gotten hold of the first evergreen you saw and it happened to be yew!
The only trees I know are spruce, pine, fir, and cedar, which are not toxic. But it absolutely important that if you want to experiment with drinking herbal tea from evergreens (or any other plant) you MUST be absolutely sure you know what species you are working with, and know that it is not toxic! Please do good research and stay safe!
This is all a great way to waste time instead of finishing the fence….
fresh pine needle infusion is delicious and healthy
I read the title as "Gross Herbal Tea Upgrade" and thought, doesn't that already say enough about it?
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em. Or at least drink 'em.
It’s cool that you took the feedback and clarified. Enjoyable video
I can't remember if you guys grow your own ginger, but gosh I love ginger so much and it always tastes so good in tea. That being said, not sure how an Herbal tea made just from ginger would be, would love to try it myself and definitely would be healthy from my understanding!
I think I read somewhere that grass is full of B17 or Laetrile, which is a cancer fighter. And grass clippings are good in compost piles. I made grass tea for my tomato plants and they were huge. As long as it hasn't been fertilized, grass is great.
I planted chamomile a few years ago in my yard and now it just keeps coming up and reseeding itself. It's tedious picking enough little flowers, but not as tedious as your tea.. Will definitely give your recipe a try, tho, when I get the chance.
Guys please post more often, I didn't even see the video and I had already clicked the like button.. I love your experiments and quality videos..
I recently dried some rosehips from a wild rosebush in my yard. I spent a couple hours collecting enough to fill a cereal bowl, they're so small! I smashed them up with a fork and let it dry, stirring it daily in a bowl, for a week. My husband doesn't like the flavor of the tea, but I enjoy the fruity taste.
We can all learn from each other! Thank you for clarifying and sharing.
Loving this down to our roots kind of conversation!!
Stop trying to eat grass when you are standing in front of a perfectly delicious forest of pine tea 😉
I had always thought that real tea was smoked as opposed to roasted, but at the same time I knew that some were pan-fried… Interesting the way the mind categorizes things sometimes… That being said, Coffee beans are roasted, chicory root is roasted, and then called coffee, dandelion root is roasted and then called coffee… so are the tea snobs or the coffee snobs more obnoxious??? 😉
This really has me giving a second look at all the Bermuda and st Augustine I’m pulling out these days.
I have a Question with the money, you make on YouTube, do you have to claim it to Revenue Canada? Does YouTube give you a T4? Do you have to claim it to E.I.? I was just wondering as a fellow Canadian. Big Fan, Keep up the Good Work. I was just Curious.
Hello! Also from Ontario here!! Curious as to where About’s you are because I’d like to try some of your gardening methods.
Bit late to comment here, but I honestly think everyone correcting you on the definition of tea should calm down. If we're going to be that technical–tea is a plant, not a beverage. The actual liquid that we drink is properly called 'tea liquor', or an 'infusion'; not 'tea'.
You guys should try making chicory, a popular coffee replacement. My favourite mix in my country is made with Obviously Chicory roots, Rye, Barley and Sugar Beet, all dried and roasted. The Coarse Powder looks quite like coffee. I believe what is happening in this one that the sugar beets are dried and roasted even burned a little amount to achieve the bitterness found in normal coffee.
I started drinking it because coffee unless extremely diluted started to make me sick, so I found this as a nice alternative and I found that it soothed my stomach too. Not trying to say its better than coffee, coffee is still way better at being coffee 😀
try mixing it with other herbal tea ingredients! some chamomile and sage in there would propbably make for a lovely herbal tea that could become a daily drinker like you say
Try a roasted comfrey tea!
One of my favorite “coffee substitute” wild forage drinks is roasted dandelion root tea it doesn’t taste like coffee per se but it is good solid way to start the morning
Hey Derek, What's Paula been up to? We miss her!
It's kinda extra supper cool that you're posting an update rather than reposting a corrected video. I wish more people would show that mistakes are not the end of the world.
Tulsi! My friend says that any garden isn't complete without Tulsi. It's super medicinal, called Krishna's holy Basil, and has a lovely mild herbal flavour. My friends get so excited; it's a home grown delicacy.